Chapter2 General provisions regarding exports and imports
06 September 2004
Every application, unless otherwise specified, shall be submitted to the licensing authority concerned, as per the territorial jurisdiction of the licensing authorities indicated in Appendix-24
Every application for an Import/Export licence/ certificate/permission or any other purpose should be complete in all respects as required under the relevant provisions of the Policy/Procedures and shall be signed by the applicant as defined in paragraph 9.9 of the Policy.
An incomplete application is liable to be rejected giving specific reason for rejection. However in case of manual applications, the applicant would furnish a soft copy of the application in MS word format.
The applicant shall furnish a self addressed envelope of 40 x 15 cm with postal stamp affixed on the envelope as follows for all documents required to be sent by Speed Post:
| (a) | Within local area Rs. 20.00 |
| (b) | Up to 200 Kms. Rs. 25.00 |
| (c) | Between 200 to 1000 Kms Rs. 30.00 |
| (d) | Beyond 1000 Kms. Rs. 50.00 |
The following categories of importers or exporters are exempted from obtaining Importer - Exporter Code (IEC) number:
| (i) | Importers covered by clause 3(1) [except sub-clauses (e) and (l)] and exporters covered by clause 3(2) [except sub-clauses (i) and (k)] of the Foreign Trade (Exemption from application of Rules in certain cases) Order, 1993. |
| (ii) | Ministries/Departments of the Central or State Government. |
| (iii) | Persons importing or exporting goods for personal use not connected with trade or manufacture or agriculture. |
| (iv) | Persons importing/exporting goods from/to Nepal provided the CIF value of a single consignment does not exceed Indian Rs.25,000. |
| (v) | Persons importing/exporting goods from/to Myanmar through Indo-Myanmar border areas provided the CIF value of a single consignment does not exceed Indian Rs.25,000. |
| (vi) | However, the exemption from obtaining Importer-Exporter Code (IEC) number shall not be applicable for the export of Special Chemicals, Organisms, Materials, Equipments and Technologies (SCOMET) as listed in Appendix- 3, Schedule 2 of the ITC(HS) except in the case of exports by category(ii) above. |
| The following permanent IEC numbers shall be used by the categories of importers/ exporters mentioned against them for import/ export purposes. |
Note: Commercial Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) who have obtained PAN will however be required to obtain Importer Exporter Code number. The permanent IEC number as mentioned above, shall be used by non-commercial PSUs.
